A French kiss:
I've just watched a clip of the BBC podcast What's Up Docs? about the health benefits of kissing. The brother doctors, Chris and Xand van Tulleken, interviewed Dr Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford. Matilda Brindle explained that when cohabiting couples intimately kissing, that's kissing using tongues and lasting for over nine seconds and using tongues, 80 million bacteria is transferred from mouth to mouth. She said that such an exchange of oral microbiomes is good for a person's immune system and that such kissing is as a good as eating a probiotic yogurt. Dr Xand van Tulleken dubbed such kissing - we call it French kissing here - as romantic probiotics.
In previous research, Matilda Brindle estimated kissing in over half of human cultures kissing is only ever non-romantic/non-sexual, that all large apes except gorillas and many primates like baboons and macaques kiss, and that the first kiss on the planet took place 21.5 million years ago.
PS. For some kissing trivia, please see FRENCH KISSING.
Auguste Rodin's Le Baiser (The Kiss), 1882:
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It's truly amazing wooow.. first time to know this
Every day is a learning day.
If germaphobes only saw the part about 80 million bacteria is transferred through a kiss, they’d have a stroke 😂
I can't see germaphobes being into kissing.
Kissing can be the most stimulating form of foreplay, for me that is, I won't speak for other women but I am sure there is a high majority that will agree. It's been my experience that most men who don't understand that tidbit generally those that truly out for their own gratification instead of making it an equal and fulfilling experience. I had one guy who thought that maybe 5 minutes of sloppy wet kissing was suppose to fire up my engine and prep the furnace, nope. Foreplay is a key factor for me with kissing being a very important part to getting things started. In the 17 yrs since my divorce there has only been a handful that knew and appreciated that mindset, then you have the 3 hr wonder..................... He was 12 yrs my junior and really didn't think anything would come of it. We finally met for dinner and that devilish grin and mustache was just as enticing live as it was in his profile pic. We enjoyed a nice dinner and we both felt we wanted to the evening to continue on. I m not a prude but I don't bed someone on the first date steadfast rule. Anyway we went down to the riverfront downtown and sat and talked and to my surprise he kissed me, wow. But shocked me and caused me to end the evening before we both crossed my barrier, was he not only knew how to slowly kiss and make it more deep an passionate as we got into it. Then he awaken a couple of erogenous zones that hadn't been awakened in such a long time. After about 2 hours of this making out and talking I had to call the evening to a close, I was so fired up I was tempted to move us to the back seat and and have my way with him, lol I don't have a police record and wasn 't about to start one with that kind of charge. When we finally we able to attend to the fire we created oh it was heavenly, and when I say 3 hrs......... it wasn't entirely having sex but enjoying each other's bodies creating an explosive release leaving us exhausted and content. I hope the doctors can fix his hip issue, we both miss those encounters a lot. Anyway I agree with the tidbit you shared, but when it comes to French kissing it
A kiss goes a long way, probably farther than a smile.
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Darn! 21.5 million years!
How come so much practice and still some guys still don't do it well! I mean, come on! 💋💋💋
There's no evolutionary excuse for people not kissing good!
@spunkycumfun My point exactly. Thank you ðŸ¤Â
Oh my ....
Kissing is good for you.
If you know your going to be french kissing someone then make sure your prepared. I miss the hours of it that me and hubby used to do.
I hope your enjoying a relaxing Sunday too..
French kissing is great foreplay and also during-play!
I think that’s right up there as one of the unsexier comparisons I’ve heard. Glad that I’m contributing to my health though!
The 'romantic probiotics' term makes it a little more sexy of a tale!
The is a bronze copy of Le Baiser at my botanical gardens. I visit it every time I'm there. I love it ... and all it represents.
It sems there are quite a few copies of Rodin's statue dotted around the world.
So if kissing is like taking probiotics, does that mean I’ve had a very healthy intake over the years? As for yogurt, I must admit I associate it with a rather different male bodily fluid than the one involved in a kiss… LOL. Perhaps that was a bit blunt?
Aura, I suspect that consumption of various tasty female liquids is also very good for men. "Bee healthy, eat your honey!"
@gnarishnakh See? Sex is healthy!
You clearly have led and are leading a very healthy lifestyle. At this rate, you'll live forever!
@AuraAviatik6 My health is rapidly deteriorating, I'm suffering from Lackanookie!
@gnarishnakh You may want to think twice about that. Performing oral sex on a vulva can increase your risk of throat cancer.
@missthee And riding my motorcycle can increase my risk of being killed by a texting driver. Drinking beer can increase my risk of dying from cirrhosis of the liver. Sitting in my room staring at the wall can increase my risk of going insane. I'll take the risk of enjoying a vulva, thank you.
@gnarishnakh As long as there is protection (that is, avoid the body fluids) to mitigate the risk, go ahead and enjoy!
@missthee Actually, I want to taste those bodily fluids, so no protections required.